The Eli Cavan Project
By Elijah Cavan, MSc.
The Eli Cavan ProjectJul 07, 2020
Basketball Team Construction & Strategies
ft. Nicolas Geisbacher!
Song: Prince - Let's Go Crazy
https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicolas-geisbacher-78aa27b1/
https://www.instagram.com/nickgeisbacher/?hl=en
Basketball Strategies Book: https://www.amazon.com/Basketball-Analytics-Objective-Strategies-Understanding/dp/1492923176
Check out some interesting sports analytics pieces on medium: https://ecavan.medium.com/ and Kaggle: https://www.kaggle.com/sportsstatseli/code
Startup we're working on: https://www.synaptiqed.com/team
Philosophy & Physics
Ft Mackenzie Neufeld
Music: New Riders of the Purple Sage - Kick in the Head
Book link: https://www.amazon.ca/dp/0228848261/ref=tsm_1_tp_tc
Mackenzie's website: https://www.authormackenzieneufeld.com/
Mackenzie's Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mackenzie-neufeld-989428191/
Field Theory in a Nutshell
Intro Music: Curls by Madvillian (MF Doom)
New Facebook Page (Will have slides and videos of the lectures): https://www.facebook.com/elicavanproject
Perimeter Institute video library: https://www.perimeterinstitute.ca/video-library
Susskind's lectures on Special Relativity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toGH5BdgRZ4
Website: https://elicavan.wixsite.com/site
Intro to the Startup Scene w/ Backr
Thanks Emily, Duncan & Miki!
https://backr.space/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/duncan-cameron-steinke-714558165/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kawanomiki/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/emily-campbell-31104910a/
Power to the Working Class!
Nov. 11
Ft the insightful Liam Donnelly
Music: Seven Turns - The Allman Brothers Band
https://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/information-for/educators/quick-facts/remembrance-day
Teach me Physics Eli
Movember: https://movember.com/m/14455671?mc=1
Website: https://elicavan.wixsite.com/site
Link to PR profile: https://lh3.google.com/u/0/d/1fFgwpbZt_l_Cfb2p_03JH5XeRo9nJaUz=w474-h354-p-k-nu-iv1
The #1 Treatment for Chronic Pain
ft. Austin Lebar!
integrativenaturopathichealth.ca
www.eglintonchiropractic.com
www.fraserinstitute.org/sites/default/files/complementary-and-alternative-medicine-2017.pdf
Multi-Level Statistical Models
ft. the ebullient Angela Paravinja
https://www.linkedin.com/in/angela-paravinja-96008387/
The Biochemistry of Proteins
ft the astounding Nicholas Bragagnolo!
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Nicholas_Bragagnolo
https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicholas-bragagnolo-949155181/?originalSubdomain=ca
Project Fastbreak: How Small Ball works
https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/project-fastbreak/id1516112343
https://www.basketball-reference.com/
Thanks Khamar McLeggon!
Manifolds & Group Theory
https://www.perimeterinstitute.ca/video-library
https://medium.com/cantors-paradise/an-invitation-to-group-theory-c81e21ab739a
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/physics-and-astronomy/differential-geometry
Personal Finance: An Introduction
Ft. the astute Malhar Mukhopadhyay
https://www.linkedin.com/in/malhar-ca/
https://mcgillpersonalfinance.com/
(European) Football: Tactics & Analytics
ft. the astonishing William James Ngana
https://www.linkedin.com/in/william-james-ngana-688a63b0/
https://www.mlssoccer.com/soccer-analytics-guide/2020
Space Exploration w/ an Astronaut-in-training
ft. Kristin Cobett!
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kristin-cobbett-a09490198/
https://scholars.wlu.ca/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1126&context=phys_faculty
https://projectpossum.org/
A (rough) introduction to Quantum Computing
Featuring the great Jake Malliaros!
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jakemalliaros/
https://www.creativedestructionlab.com/streams/quantum/
Tools for Sports Analytics
Key words: SQL, Python, spark, Machine Learning, Kaggle, Monte Carlo, Density estimation, Regression, Linear Algebra.
Edit: .333 vs .300 is 11% above league average. *facepalm
The N-Body Problem
Paper: https://scholar.google.ca/citationsuser=z2ELZ_QAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=sra
https://www.storyofmathematics.com/mathematicians.html
https://tutorial.math.lamar.edu/Classes/CalcI/LinearApproximations.aspx
Sweat the Small Stuff (Like a Neutrino or something)
An overview of the standard model: all the known/theorized particles in existence
https://physics.info/standard/
https://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/five-mysteries-the-standard-model-cant-explain
Intro to the Project
Lend your ears; in the words of the great Phillip Seymour Hoffman, "I am a writer, a doctor, a nuclear physicist and a theoretical philosopher. But above all, I am a man, a hopelessly inquisitive man, just like you." (The Master). Join me on my journey to self enlightenment. Kidding, lets talk about science and sports and shit.